Humanities
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VELS Learning Domain: The Humanities
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Humanities knowledge and understanding Dimension
Focus on key humanities knowledge and concepts. Students learn about:
- their immediate and local community and environment
- history and geography of their country
- diversity of culture and environment.
Through structured activities they learn the concepts of time and space:
- time as chronology and sequencing, change and continuity
- spatial concepts of location, distance, scale and distribution.
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Humanities skills
The Humanities skills dimension focuses on the development of basic inquiry skills including
- observation
- collection of various types of evidence
- asking and answering questions about evidence
- presenting information in a variety of ways.
In levels 4, 5 & 6 Humanities is broken into the following sub-domains
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Economics
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Geography
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History
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Software
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Examples
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References
- The humanities (http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/essential/discipline/humanities/index.html) | Discipline-based Learning (http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/essential/discipline/index.html) | P-10 Curriculum and Standards (http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/essential/index.html) | VELS HOME (http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/)
- VASST (http://www.vasst.asn.au) Victorian Association of Social Studies Teachers
- GTAV (http://www.gtav.asn.au) Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria
- HTAV (http://www.htav.asn.au) History Teachers' Association of Victoria
- VCTA (http://www.vcta.asn.au) Victorian Commercial Teachers' Association
- AFSSE (http://www.afssse.asn.au/) Australian Federation of Societies for the Studies of Society and Environment
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